How to Answer Interview Questions for a Software Testing Job

You have an interview at a software company and you want to make sure you answer the questions properly. Plan ahead and prepare for the interview by knowing ahead of time what the interviewer might cover. Follow these tips to answer interview questions for a software testing job.

Instructions

1. • 1 Know all about the company. The interviewer will ask you questions about the business as well as software questions like how your skills will help the business, so do your research and wow the interviewer with your knowledge of the company.
   • 2 Talk about your education in software testing. List any examples of software testing you have conducted in the past in a job or in school. You want the employer to understand how to test software.
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   • 3 Use open ended questions to explain your qualifications and tell about yourself. Give examples of each skill you have.
   • 4 Show your personal qualities, such your willingness to work overtime. Explain that you are a team player who can also work independently and that you are also a problem solver with great communication skills.
   • 5 Identify which software testing procedures you are familiar with. Describe any experience you have with test plans or test cases.
   • 6 Explain your knowledge and experience with automated testing and manual testing of software packages. Include the testing tools you used. List your knowledge of software development or programming languages like Java, Visual or C++.
   • 7 Describe your willingness to learn new things if you don't know a software procedure, program or term used by the interviewer. Remind the interviewer of all your current knowledge and skills including your ability and willingness to learn more.

Good interview questions QA from Cem Kaner article: "Recruiting testers" December 1999

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1. What is software quality assurance?
2. What is the value of a testing group? How do you justify your work and budget?
3. What is the role of the test group vis-୶is documentation, tech support, and so forth?
4. How much interaction with users should testers have, and why?
5. How should you learn about problems discovered in the field, and what should you learn from those problems?
6. What are the roles of glass-box and black-box testing tools?
7. What issues come up in test automation, and how do you manage them?
8. What development model should programmers and the test group use?
9. How do you get programmers to build testability support into their code?
10. What is the role of a bug tracking system?
11. What are the key challenges of software testing?
12. Have you ever completely tested any part of a product? How?
13. Have you done exploratory or specification-driven testing?
14. Should every business test its software the same way?
15. Discuss the economics of automation and the role of metrics in testing.
16. Describe components of a typical test plan, such as tools for interactive products and for database products, as well as cause-and-effect graphs and data-flow diagrams.
17. When have you had to focus on data integrity?
18. What are some of the typical bugs you encountered in your last assignment?
19. How do you prioritize testing tasks within a project?
20. How do you develop a test plan and schedule? Describe bottom-up and top-down approaches.
21. When should you begin test planning?
22. When should you begin testing?
23. Do you know of metrics that help you estimate the size of the testing effort?
24. How do you scope out the size of the testing effort?
25. How many hours a week should a tester work?
26. How should your staff be managed? How about your overtime?
27. How do you estimate staff requirements?
28. What do you do (with the project tasks) when the schedule fails?
29. How do you handle conflict with programmers?
30. How do you know when the product is tested well enough?
31. What characteristics would you seek in a candidate for test-group manager?
32. What do you think the role of test-group manager should be? Relative to senior management?
Relative to other technical groups in the company? Relative to your staff?
33. How do your characteristics compare to the profile of the ideal manager that you just described?
34. How does your preferred work style work with the ideal test-manager role that you just described? What is different between the way you work and the role you described?
35. Who should you hire in a testing group and why?
36. What is the role of metrics in comparing staff performance in human resources management?
37. How do you estimate staff requirements?
38. What do you do (with the project staff) when the schedule fails?
39. Describe some staff conflicts you’ve handled.

Here are some interview questions you might be asked on a job interviewfor a testing opening: (sample from MU COSC 198 Software Testing by Dr. Corliss)

1. Why did you ever become involved in QA/software testing?
2. What is the software testing lifecycle and explain each of its phases?
3. What is the difference between testing and QA (Quality Assurance)?
4. What is Negative testing?
5. What was a problem you had in your previous assignment (testing if possible)? How did you resolve it?
6. What are two of your strengths that you will bring to our QA/testing team?
7. How would you define (QA) Quality Assurance?
8. What do you like most about Quality Assurance/Software Testing?
9. What do you like least about Quality Assurance/Testing?
10. What is the Waterfall Development Method and do you agree with all the steps?
11. What is the V-Model Development Method and do you agree with this model?
12. What is the Capability Maturity Model (CMM)? At what CMM level were the last few companies you worked?
13. What is a "Good Software Tester"?
14. Could you tell me two things you did in your previous assignment (QA/Testing related hopefully) that you are proud of?
15. List 5 words that best describe your strengths.
16. What are two of your weaknesses?
17. What methodologies have you used to develop test cases?
18. In an application currently in production, one module of code is being modified. Is it necessary to re- test the whole application or is it enough to just test functionality associated with that module?
19. Define each of the following and explain how each relates to the other: Unit, System, and Integration testing.
20. Define Verification and Validation. Explain the differences between the two.
21. Explain the differences between White-box, Gray-box, and Black-box testing.
22. How do you go about going into a new organization? How do you assimilate?
23. Define the following and explain their usefulness: Change Management, Configuration Management, Version Control, and Defect Tracking.
24. What is ISO 9000? Have you ever been in an ISO shop?
25. When are you done testing?
26. What is the difference between a test strategy and a test plan?
27. What is ISO 9003? Why is it important
28. What are ISO standards? Why are they important?
29. What is IEEE 829? (This standard is important for Software Test Documentation-Why?)
30. What is IEEE? Why is it important?
31. Do you support automated testing? Why?
32. We have a testing assignment that is time-driven. Do you think automated tests are the best solution?
33. What is your experience with change control? Our development team has only 10 members. Do you think managing change is such a big deal for us?
34. Are reusable test cases a big plus of automated testing and explain why.
35. Can you build a good audit trail using Compuware's QA Center products. Explain why.
36. How important is Change Management in today's computing environments?
37. Do you think tools are required for managing change. Explain and please list some tools/practices which can help you managing change.
38. We believe in ad-hoc software processes for projects. Do you agree with this? Please explain your answer.
39. When is a good time for system testing?
40. Are regression tests required or do you feel there is a better use for resources?
41. Our software designers use UML for modeling applications. Based on their use cases, we would like to plan a test strategy. Do you agree with this approach or would this mean more effort for the testers.
42. Tell me about a difficult time you had at work and how you worked through it.
43. Give me an example of something you tried at work but did not work out so you had to go at things another way.
44. How can one file compare future dated output files from a program which has change, against the baseline run which used current date for input. The client does not want to mask dates on the output files to allow compares. - Answer-Rerun baseline and future date input files same # of days as future dated run of program with change. Now run a file compare against the baseline future dated output and the changed programs' future dated output.

Questions to ask during an interview

1. What is the structure of the company?
2. Who is going to do the interview-possible background information of interviewer?
3. What kinds of assignments might I expect in the first six months of the job?
4. What do you like best about your company?
5. What is the employer's environment (platforms, tools, etc.)?
6. What are the employer's methods and processes used in software arena?
7. What is the employer's philosophy?
8. What is the project all about you are interviewing for-as much information as possible.
9. Any terminologies that the company may use.
10. What is the structure of the software testing team?
11. What are the responsibilities of the software testing team members?
12. How many computers are in the software testing lab?
13. What kinds of software testing tools are installed in the software testing lab?
14. What is the ratio between software developers and testers in the company?
15. What development and QA methodologies is the company using?
16. What are your growth projections for next year?
17. Have you cut your staff in the last three years?
18. Is this a new position or am I replacing someone?

71 basic SQA / testing interview questions

1. What is the Difference between Project and Product testing? What difference you have observed while testing the Clint/Server application and web server application
2. What are the differences between interface and integration testing? Are system specification and functional specification the same? What are the differences between system and functional testing?
3. What is Multi Unit testing?
4. What are the different types, methodologies, approaches, methods in software testing
5. What is the difference between test techniques and test methodology?


6. What is meant by test environment,… what is meant by DB installing and configuring and deploying skills?
7. What is logsheet? And what are the components in it?
8. What is Red Box testing? What is Yellow Box testing? What is Grey Box testing?
9. What is business process in software testing?
10. What is the difference between Desktop application testing and Web testing?
11. Find the values of each of the alphabets. N O O N S O O N + M O O N J YOU N E
12. With multiple testers how does one know which test cases are assigned to them? • Folder structure • Test process
13. What kind of things does one need to know before starting an automation project?
14. What is difference between a Test Plan, a Test Strategy, A Test Scenario, and A Test Case? What’s is their order of succession in the STLC?
15. How many functional testing tools are available? What is the easiest scripting language used?
16. Which phase is called as the Blackout or Quite Phase in SDLC?
17. When an application is given for testing, with what initial testing the testing will be started and when are all the different types of testing done following the initial testing?
18. What is difference between test plan and use case?
19. In an application if I enter the delete button it should give an error message “Are you sure you want to delete” but the application gives the message as “Are you sure”. Is it a bug? And if it is how would you rate its severity?
20. Who are the three stake holders in testing?
21. What is meant by bucket testing?
22. What is test case analysis?
23. The recruiter asked if I have Experience in Pathways. What is this?
24. What is the difference between GUI testing and black box testing
25. What are the main things we have to keep in mind while writing the test cases? Explain with format by giving an example
26. How we can write functional and integration test cases? Explain with format by giving examples.
27. Explain the water fall model and V- model of software development life cycles with block diagrams.
28. For notepad application can any one write the functional and system test cases?
29. Can you give me the exact answer for Test Bug?
30. What is the difference between Use Case and test case?
31. What is installation shield in testing
32. What is one key element of the test case?
33. What are the management tools we have in testing?
34. Can we write Functional test case based on only BRD or only Use case?
35. What’s main difference between smoke and sanity testing? When are these performed?
36. What Technical Environments have you worked with?
37. Have you ever converted Test Scenarios into Test Cases?
38. What is the ONE key element of ‘test case’?
39. What is the ONE key element of a Test Plan?
40. What is SQA testing? tell us steps of SQA testing
41. How do you promote the concept of phase containment and defect prevention?
42. Which Methodology you follow in your test case?
43. What are the test cases prepared by the testing team
44. During the start of the project how will the company come to an conclusion that tool is required for testing or not?
45. Define Bug Life Cycle? What is Metrics
46. What is a Test procedure?
47. What is the difference between SYSTEM testing and END-TO-END testing?
48. What is Traceability Matrix? Is there any interchangeable term for Traceability Matrix? Are Traceability Matrix and Test Matrix same or Different?
49. What is the difference between an exception and an error?
50. Correct bug tracking process - Reporting, Re-testing, Debugging, …..?
51. What is the difference between bug and defect?
52. How much time is/should be allocated for testing out of total Development time based on industry standards?
53. What are test bugs?
54. Define Quality - bug free, Functionality working or both?
55. What is the purpose of software testing’s - Bug removal, System’s functionality working, quality or all?
56. What is the major difference between Web services & client server environment?
57. Is there any tool to calculate how much time should be allocated for testing out of total development?
58. What is Scalability testing? Which tool is used?
59. Define Reliability?
60. Best to solve defects - requirements, plan, design, code / testing phase?
61. Cost of solving a bug from requirements phase to testing phase - increases slowly, decreases, increases steeply or remains constant?
62. What is scalability testing? What are the phases of the scalability testing?
63. What is the difference between end to end testing and system testing.
64. What kind of things does one need to know before starting an automation project?
65. Have you worked with data pools and what is your opinion on them? Give me an example as to how a script would handle the data pool.
66. What is difference between a Test Plan, a Test Strategy, A Test Scenario, and A Test Case? What’s is their order of succession in the STLC?
67. How many functional testing tools are available? What is the easiest scripting language used?
68. If we found the bug in SRS or FRS, how to categorize that bug?
69. What is the difference between end to end testing and system testing.
70. What is the difference between a defect and an enhancement?
71. Project is completed. Completed means that UAT testing is going. In that situation as a tester what will you do?

If you are recruiter / employer select interview questions to assess software testers or QA in all of the following areas

Motivation

Problem solving

Decision making

Technical knowledge

Time management

Multitasking

Leadership

Sincerity

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General interview questions for Software testers and QA professionals:

1. What types of documents would you need for QA, QC, and Software Testing?
2. What did you include in a test plan?
3. Describe any bug you remember.
4. What is the purpose of the software testing?
5. What do you like (not like) in this job?
6. What is QA (quality assurance)?
7. What is the difference between QA and software testing?    Read the answer for this interview question   for software testers
8. How do you scope, organize, and execute a test project?
9. Why did you choose to be a software tester?
10. What is the role of QA in a development project?
11. What sort of manager would you like to work with?
12. What is the role of QA in a company that produces software?
13. Define quality for me as you understand it
14. Describe to me the difference between validation and verification.
15. Describe to me what you see as a process. Not a particular process, just the basics of having a process.
16. Describe to me when you would consider employing a failure mode and effect analysis.
17. Describe to me the Software Development Life Cycle as you would define it.
18. What are the properties of a good requirement?
19. What do you want to be doing in your career in five years?
20. How do you differentiate the roles of Quality Assurance Manager and Project Manager?
21. Tell me about any quality efforts you have overseen or implemented. Describe some of the challenges you faced and how you overcame them.
22. How do you deal with environments that are hostile to quality change efforts?
23. In general, how do you see automation fitting into the overall process of testing?
24. How do you promote the concept of phase containment and defect prevention?
25. If you come onboard, give me a general idea of what your first overall tasks will be as far as starting a quality effort.
26. What kinds of software testing have you done?
27. What the best work have you performed?
28. What metrics do you think determine a tester’s progress in an organisation?
29. Have you ever created a test plan?
30. Describe ideal software testing environment.
31. Have you ever written test cases or did you just execute those written by others?
32. What did your base your test cases?
33. Suppose a software has three inputs, each having a defined valid range. How many test cases will you need to test all the boundary values?
34. How do you determine what to test?
35. How do you decide when you have 'tested enough?'
36. How do you test if you have minimal or no documentation about the product?
37. Describe me to the basic elements you put in a defect report?
38. Why would you like to work on this project?
39. How do you perform regression testing of software?
40. What knowledge do you think are important to be successful in software testing?
41. At what stage of the life cycle does testing begin in your opinion?
42. How do you analyze your test results? What metrics do you try to provide?
43. Realising you won't be able to test everything - how do you decide what to test first?
44. Where do you get your expected results?
45. If automating - what is your process for determining what to automate and in what order?
46. In the past, I have been asked to verbally start mapping out a test plan for a common situation, such as an ATM. The interviewer might say, "Just thinking out loud, if you were tasked to test an ATM, what items might you test plan include?" These type questions are not meant to be answered conclusively, but it is a good way for the interviewer to see how you approach the task.
47. If you're given a program that will average student grades, what kinds of inputs would you use?
48. Tell me about the best bug you ever found.
49. How should the testing of a excel spreadsheet and an aircraft application differ?
50. What made you pick software testing over another career?
51. What is the exact difference between Integration & System testing, give me examples with your project.
52. How did you go about software testing a project?
53. When should software testing start in a project? Why?
54. What are your most valuable lessons learned from the last Software Testing project that you was involved?
55. How do you go about testing a web application?
56. Difference between Black & White box software testing
57. What is Configuration management? Tools used?
58. How do you apply configuration management (CM) process in software testing?
    Answer:Configuration management
59. What do you plan to become after say 2-5yrs (Ex: QA Manager, Why?)
60. Would you like to work in a team or alone, why?
61. How you handled a difficult situation with a coworker.
62. Give me 5 strong & weak points of yours
63. Why do you want to join our company?
64. What was your background before testing?
65. Why did you get involved in testing?
66. When should software testing be stopped?
67. How do you know when you've finished and can stop testing? How much is enough?
68. Tell me about how you had to meet a very tight deadline.
69. How to motivate a software tester?
70. What sort of things would you put down in a bug report?
71. Why is it important to assign both severity and priority levels to a defect?
72. Who in the company is responsible for Quality?
73. Who defines quality?
74. What is an equivalence class?
75. Is a "A fast database retrieval rate" a testable requirement?
76. Should we test every possible combination/scenario for a program?
77. What criteria do you use when determining when to automate a test or leave it manual?
78. When do you start developing your automation tests?
79. Discuss what test metrics you feel are important to publish an organization?
80. Describe the role that QA plays in the software lifecycle.
81. What should Development require of QA?
82. What should QA require of Development?
83. How would you define a "bug?"
84. Give me an example of the best and worst experiences you've had with QA.
85. How does unit testing play a role in the development / software lifecycle?
86. Explain some techniques for developing software components with respect to testability.
87. Describe a past experience with implementing a test harness in the development of software.
88. Have you ever worked with QA in developing test tools? Explain the participation Development should have with QA in leveraging such test tools for QA use.
89. Give me some examples of how you have participated in Integration Testing.
90. How would you describe the involvement you have had with the bug-fix cycle between Development and QA?
91. What is unit testing?
92. Describe your personal software development process.
93. Describe your solution to one of the most difficult testing problems you have faced.
94. How do you know when your code has met specifications?
95. How do you know your code has met specifications when there are no specifications?
96. Describe your experiences with code analyzers.
97. How do you feel about cyclomatic complexity?
98. Who should test your code?
99. How do you survive chaos?
100. What processes/methodologies are you familiar with?
101. What type of documents would you need for QA/QC/Software Testing?
102. How can you use technology to solve problem?
103. What type of metrics would you use?
104. How to find that tools work well with your existing system?
105. What automated tools are you familiar with?
106. How well you work with a team?
107. How would you ensure 100% coverage during software testing?
108. How would you build a test team?
109. What problem you have right now or in the past? How you solved it?
110. What you will do during the first day of job?
111. What would you like to do five years from now?
112. Tell me about the worst boss you've ever had.
113. Give some specific examples of creative solutions in your last testing project.
114. What are your greatest weaknesses?
115. What are your strengths?
116. What is a successful product?
117. What do you like about Windows?
118. What is good code?
119. How do you deal with criticism?
120. Who is Kent Beck, Dr Grace Hopper, Dennis Ritchie?
121. What are basic, core, practises for a QA specialist?
122. What do you like about QA?
123. What has not worked well in your previous QA experience and what would you change?
124. How does a programmer's testing differ from a QA department member's testing?
125. How you will begin to improve the QA process?
126. What is the difference between QA and QC?
127. What is UML and how to use it for software testing?
128. What is CMM and CMMI? What is the difference?
129. What do you like about computers?
130. Do you have a favourite QA book? More than one? Which ones? And why.
131. Can you briefly explain the benefits you enjoyed as a result of reading this book?
132. What is the responsibility of programmers vs QA?
133. What are the properties of a good requirement?
134. Ho to do test if we have minimal or no documentation about the product?
135. What are all the basic elements in a defect report?
136. Is an "A fast database retrieval rate" a testable requirement?
137. Why should you care about objects and object-oriented testing?
138. What does 100% statement coverage mean?
139. How do you perform configuration management with typical revision control systems?
140. What is code coverage?
141. What types of code coverage do you know?
142. What tools can be used for code coverage analysis?
143. Is any graph is used for code coverage analysis?
144. At what stage of the development cycle software errors are least costly to correct?
145. What can you tell about the project if during testing you found 80 bugs in it?
146. How to monitor test progress?
147. Describe a few reasons that a bug might not be fixed.
148. What are the possible states of software bug?s life cycle?
149. What books about QA (software testing) did you read?
150. What type of testing based specifically on a program code?
151. What type of testing based on any document that describes the "structure of the software"?
152. Please describe test design techniques like: state-transition diagrams, decision tables, activity diagrams.
153. Describe business process testing and what test design technique would you use for it?

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151. Hi,Can anybody clear me about Equivalance Class partition.

152. Pls explain the concept of Regression Testing with the help of simple Example

153. there is 100 requirements,how can u find is there all requirements are covered by your test case?

154. What do you mean by dynamic testing?

155. what are the software testing deliverables by a software testing company to their client for their inhouse developed modules? any specific format for white box manual testing?

156. What is the difference between Code Walkthrough & Code Review?

157. What is TDLC?

158. Last test case for project will be written in which phase?


159. What is the Diff between SIT & IST?


160. What is a Data Guideline?
161. How is risk analysis done?


162. What is the Difference between Retest and Regression Testing?

163. What do you do if the documentation given to you unclear/not understandable?

164. traceability matrix, test strategy

165. what are the functional parameters.

166. when we know that testing is complete?

167. what is virtual object in winrunner, use of it?

168. If there's a problem in the software but no one ever discovers itnot programmers, not testers, and not even a single customeris it a bug?

169. what is sure stopper in testing

170. What is Build Interval Period?
171. What is Risk Analysis?

172. What is mean by software engineering?

173. How can we do Database Testing?


174. How do you do the integration of modules before performing integration testing?


175. 1)How do you prepare defect policy report

176. who gives the documentation to the tester?

177. Hi Tell me details about use cases . How we start actual testing in any organization . when the role of tester starts.

178. You are to run 2 test scriptsTest script 1 : This is the new version of s/w to be released after regression testingTest script 2: This is the new version of entire s/wYou found a lot of faults and defects in test script 1. What do you do and why???


179. What are the differences we can find while testing an java application and .Net application?

180. Hi Group,Can anybody tell me abt the Non Functional Requirements with the suitable example.ThanksRanjeet
181. What is Use case?what is psudo code?

182. please send a model question paper for selection of software functions.

183. Are the test scripts for GUI/Naviagation type of testing will be written for each individual forms separately?
184. what is meant by Build in Testing?

185. What is Interoperability Testing?


186. what isTest metric
187. Discuss realtime system testing

188. what is the differance between cmm and tmm?

189. Who prepares the test policy document?

190. What is Interoperability Testing?
191. What are the fields u can see in Test Report.

192. What is the difference b/w Test Methodology and Test strategy?

193. What is the difference between System Testing & End- to- end Testing?
194. what is pairwise testing?

195. If a bug is found that is not replicable all times, does that bug should be reported to developer?

196. What is open issue?

197. What is Test Scenario?

198. Given requirement collection document, tester can prepare which type of test plan?

199. I would like to know, when you are converting oracle9i reports to crystal reports, what all do you need to test?

200. 3 module is there like a,b, c i have to inegrate these 3 module but module b is not ready how i ll integrate these module?
201. WAS(web application stress) tool is used for which type of testing?

202. What is the meaning of Functional Contract in the context of Requirment specs?
203. What is the process of complete EDI Testing for both inbound and outbound transaction sets?

204. What is the difference between Master Test Plan and Test Plan? Do we really require two Test Plans? Please explain in detail?

205. When an application is having database, name few checks that need to be carried out for testing database?

206. Name few common bug's in localization testing?

207. What is mean by data flow diagram? What is the difference between the data flow diagram and flow chart?

208. In Test Director what is the difference between Favourite & Filter?

209. How to test Memory Leakage Manually?

210. What is Cost of time and who said it
211. What is Testing Decompositaion?

212. What do we do when an extra functionality,which is not specified the functionality specification is found?

213. How to set/verify the testing environment?

214. Why is a software project difficult to monitor and control? Substantiate your answer with specific examples.

215. In software testing generally it happens that when a tester finds a bug in a piece of software then the chances of finding another increases.. Why So

216. How to prepare tracebility matrix?

217. Dear Freinds , could some body throw some light on the basic process and principles followed for SAP testing? thanx,regards,jahnavi

218. what is meant by fault/bug density ,how do u calculate this.


219. What is share action,per action and object repository in QTP? Please explain me along with the example.

220. How will you select reasonable tests to be applied on a project?
221. what is pilot testing?

222. What is bi-directional traceability matrix? Give sample format?

223. wats the difference betweeen the 'V' shape and 'U' shape.

224. where we do the acceptance testing?is it done only at during installation of the software or it can be done als when all the customer requirements are collected???

225. What is ERP Testing?

226. What are the functional parameters of software testing? &What are the principles of software testing?

227. Define searchability matrix used in application testing?

228. What is the differance between bug and feature .How u dill with it with R&D.thanksronen

229 hi alli am into a project where the system generates various reports and i have to test all the reports so what has to be tested in the reports i.e what are the important things to be tested in the reportsferoz

230. What is non-compliance testing?
231. how to identify/find bugs in a testscript?

232. what are all the scenarios to test a report

233. How to test for Check 21 implementation on specific \

234. What is the difference between Functional Testing and System Testing, there is any marjor difference between these two concepts?

235. what is latent bug?

236. How do u test a weblink which is changing dynamically?

237. whar are the major diff. between the Winrunner 6.0 and 7.0 (with internal procedure)?

238. Write test cases for char * my_itoa(int n) method? What if this function is mission critical? How will you test it? How can you speed up the implementation?

Software Testing Interview Questions - Part 3

101. what test you perform mostly? Regression or retesting in your testing process?


102. what are the skills required for Monkey testing?

103. how can we map testcases with requirements .. please give some examples

104. What is Compatability Testing? and What are all the procedures to conduct Compatability Testing?


105. what are the tools used manual and automated testing for test mainframe products

106. A system test that focus the s/w to fall in a variety of ways & verify that s/w is aqble to continue execution without interruption.This is know as:a) Recovery testing or b) Stress testing or c) both

107. What is a base line document and how to write good test cases by using baseline document?What are the contents in the base line document?

108. What is Business acceptance testing and what is the difference between UAT and BAT

109. What is the difference between test case and use case?

110. How Load, Stress & performance testing is done practically? What templates and measures are noted down in all these testing?
111. Explain the difference between Re-testing and Regression testing?

112. Write test case format and test cases for Login window where we have to test username and password

113. what is mean by srs?explian briefly.

114. Difference betwen load and stress testing ?

115. What kind of Document you need for going for an Functional testing?

116. is v model better than water fall model. If so how is it?

117. Explain statement coverage?

118. what is rush or panic mode

119. Write a Test Case on a program that calculates P=R/I where R, I are integer inputs and P a floating point output.

120. what is the difference between web based application and client server application
121. What is Test Readiness Review? and what is the criterion for composing it?

122. what is SQT and why do we use.

123. what is the advantage of manual testing over automation testing?

124. What is the Initial Stage of testing?

125. What is the Outcome of Integration Testing?

126. what is difference between functional testing and system testing

127Suppose Test Lead or Project Manager is given test cases to execute 300 Test Cases within 3 days. But Because of some Serious Family problem i have to go my native and i have only one and half day time to execute 300 test cases and it is not possible with in one and half day so at that time what you will do ( But here i the person knows well this module Project manager is not ready to give this test to other he is telling to execute me only ) at that time what are the steps u will take any one

128. What are the Minimum requirements to start testing?


129. What is the relationship between Quality & Testing?

130. Why do we prepare test condition, test cases, test script (Before Starting Testing)?
131. What are the things, you prefer & Prepare before starting Testing?

132. Overview of test plan – IEEE standards.

133. What happens when Software defects increase as software development processesa.increases linearlyb.decreases linearlyc.increases exponentiallyd.decreases exponentially

134. what is meant by defect submission with examples

135. How can you reduce/eliminate duplicate test cases

136. What's the different between Tester and a Test Analyst?

137. How to calculate Time required to execute test cases?

138. What is Kpas?What is ISO,SEICM,PCMM,SIX SIGMA?


139. 1.How to estimate test effort?2.How to test server without client?3.If their is less time for testing How do test plan the application?4.Adhoc Testing?5.What is sysops Testing?6.Detetmine server stability through load/performance testing?7.tomake attributes test engineers?8.If change the code how do you dynamic changes?9.write a TSL script for addition of 2 no.s?10.What isthe name of the class in WR where declare inarray in a function?

140. Why UNIX is Required for a testing Engineer? What is the Role of Testing Engineer If he knows UNIX?
141. what is the testing policy ?and how to decided which one is best ?


142. This question has been asked in a interview if any body get answer plz give the ans1. given requirement collection document, tester can prepare which type of test plan?2. Last test case for a project will be written in which phase?3. Name few comman bugs in localization testing.4.What is localization and internationalization testing?What is the difference between them?5. When an application is having database ,Name few checks that need to be carried out for testing database?6. WAS(web applic

143. What testing phases are performed On each SDLC stages?

144. what is the difference between RTM and TRTM

145. What are the features, you take care in Prototype testing?

146. What is the Concept of Up-Down & Down-Up in Testing in integration testing?

147. If the developer is not ready to fix the bug what do you do?Question asked to me in an interview

148. What Is Test Bed?

149. what is meant by Fuzz testing?

150. what is acid testing?

Software Testing Interview Questions - Part 2

51. What is a UseCase , and what is the difference between a Usecase and a Testcase.Pls Help


52. What is your process for determining what to automate and in what order?


53. How will you test a stapler?


54. There are 2 systems, A and B, A is sending data to B and B inturn is sending an acknowledgement to A, What are the test scenarios for this. This is the question:Apart from Functional Data validations, interviewer is expecting some thing more.


55. In the first step of the software testing i.e., requirements gathering.What are requirements

56. What would be strategy to fix bugs in an unknown piece of code?

57. What happens when a software tester makes wrong decession


58list out the contents in traceability matrix with sample template. who is responsible for preparing the traceability matrix

59. Explain about how you would do Mainframe testing,

60. Do you test your own code? How do you test your code
61. What are the different types of load Conditions?


62. If a customer wants a new feature to be added, how would you go about adding that?

63. Hi What is the diffrence between Regression testing and Retesting?


64 If a scale down environment is given instead of production environment, how can we certify the product by performance testing?

65. What is the entry criteria for Automation testing?

66. what did you do as a team leader?


67. What is defect leakage?

68. Did u ever have to deal with someone who doesn't believe in testing? What did u do?

69. Describe the last project scenario and generate test cases for it?

70. Which tool can be used to test business component?

71. What is WSWAS and Link checker?
72. How will you test a keyboard?

73. What is the role of tester in SDLC cycle ( in each phase )

74. What is FPD (Functional Poing Description)? When do we prepare FPD?

75. You are a tester for testing a large system. The complex data model is very large with lots of fields, data, and interdependent paths between them. many attributes and there are a lot of interdependencies within the fields. What steps would you use to test the system

76. What is the difference between Return and treturn?

77. What important test cases will need to be run to test an installable?

78. What are the case study-historical data?

79. What are the steps followed in Test Strategy and Test Plan

80. How would you test a fast lazer printer?
81. One person reviews a QA test plan prepared by his counterpart and gives him comment.It is a part of?a) QCb) QAc) Bothd) None
82. 1. Automation2. Manual Testing3. Database4. ProcessesWhich one is best to select and present for experienced tester?

83. What is the diff between Volume & Load?

84. why most of the companys go for manual testing rather than automation testing ,when automation testing useful?


85. What are Pareto Digrams?What is meant by Code Checkers?What is Static testing?Criteria used for selecting test tool?Which among the options provided below, is not a quality factor for the usability testing?a) In-consistencyb) Navigationc) Comprehensibilityd) Responsiveness


86. What are the different phases in SDLC,what is test teams part in tht??

87. What is the difference between Product-based Company and Projects-based Company?

88. What is meant by test bid and business reason for using the test bid?

89. Who actually perform Alpha testing?Both developer and customer or only customer?
90. What is the Black Box Testing for web-based application?
91. What are the processes of game testing?How does game testing differs from other testing methods?
92. What is the diff between Stress & Load Testing?


93. In Software Testing prespective, what is differnce between Continous data and Discreet Data ?

94. what are the disadvantages of blackbox testing


95. Generate test cases for replace string method


96. What is the difference between web testing and Application testing?


97. How do you test telephone and inlcude possible test cases.

98. What is diff between Volume & Stress?


99. Explain White Box testing techniques related to mainframe testing..?


100. Q. Calculator performs this operation 1*1=2, 2*2=4, 3*3=10, 4*4=16, 5*5=26Identify the bug and write bug title and description.